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Happy “Deep Listening Month”

I'm declaring December "Deep Listening Month." There's no better time to embrace this practice. As we wrap up 2025, firm ...

Unlearning

What if the most important thing you need to learn right now is how to unlearn? Our culture is obsessed with ...

The Half-Life of a Bold Idea

We’ve all been in that meeting. The energy is electric. The team is aligned around a bold new idea, and ...

‘The Stranger’ vs. ‘Higher Love’

I've been thinking a lot about the two competing forces inside each of us: our higher self and our lower ...

Holding the Line

A junior Sony engineer, Ken Kutaragi, develops a 3D graphics chip for a video game console. His own executives, who ...

A Better Way

We all live with a lot of assumptions about how things should be done.Assumptions feel comfortable and they save us ...

How Can I Help?

We walk into a negotiation thinking, what's my bottom line? We go to a networking event wondering, who can I ...

Traditions

The holidays will be here before we know it, and it has me thinking about traditions. The ritual of carving ...

Contagious

A cold makes its way through the entire office. A yawn ripples through a meeting. A rumor spreads through the ...

My “TO-BE” List

We all have a to-DO list. But if we’re human BEINGS and not human DOINGS, why not also have a ...